[atupis]

>presenting even worse result than usual, and instead of being able to customize the search to fix that, you end up with Bing-like results giving you crap you explicitly tried to exclude.

Is this some side effect from user-tailored search experience, for me personally Google still gives better results than eg DGG or Bing.

[irrational]

Can you give an example of better results? I've been using DDG exclusively for many years and have never failed to find the thing I'm searching for on the first page of results. What am I missing?